Millay, as Milford depicts her, was a troubled genius who used her prodigious gift to propel herself out of rural poverty and into the center of her age. of all ages and both sexes." How a lyric poet could have achieved such celebrity is the conundrum at the heart of Savage Beauty. She was notorious for her sexual unconventionality and (as Edmund Wilson put it) "her intoxicating effect on people. ") would become the rallying cry of a generation. Like Fitzgerald, Millay (1892–1950) was a Jazz Age phenomenon, causing a sensation wherever she went lines from her brief poem, "First Fig" ("I burn my candle at both ends/ It will not last the night. Bestseller list 30 years ago with her acclaimed biography of Zelda Fitzgerald she now seems poised to do it again with this outstanding biography of the poet Edna St.
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